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Today on Flashpoints:
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, a wide-ranging
interview with Independent Party Presidential Candidate Ralph
Nader, we'll focus on Palestine, Iraq, NAFTA, corporate greed
and immigrant rights; also, a special expanded Knight Report
into the potential postponement of the 2004 election that
could throw it into the House of Representatives and guarantee
a Bush victory;
5:03 PM PST
Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader is interviewed by Dennis
Bernstein. Listen to Ralph Nader's positions on Palestine,
Iraq
and Afghanistan, Education,
Health
Care, the USA
Patriot Act, Poverty
and what will not be discussed in the Kerry-Bush debates.
Nader also points to changes needed in safety and environmental
policy, foreign
policy, bloated military spending, corporate globalization
and fair
trade, election
reform, jobs
and more. Visit the campaign website VoteNader.org
for more information.
5:38 PM PST
Music Break - Don't Stand BY (While Democracy Dies) - The
Riparians
5:41 PM PST
The Knight Report - Expanded Election Edition with Robert
Knight: An analysis of the Bush administration's effort to
enact special election rules in the event of terrorism, disaster
or other means of interference. In this special report we
see that it's not necessary to bomb on election day when special
interests can cheat in the electoral college.
See also:
League of
Women Voters position on Selection
of the President
NJ Representative Rush
Holt's Congressional website
The following comments revealing the guesswork behind the
election scare are from the July 8, 2004 Press
Briefing by Homeland Security:
Question: This intelligence that you have, are they specifically
mentioning their intent to thwart the democratic process,
the election? And if so, in what context?
Senior Intelligence Official: Al-Qaeda, for many years, has,
in fact, tried to carry out attacks here or to design attacks
that would create political, economic and psychological damage
on the United States. Our various institutions, including
the electoral process, democratic processes here, are part
of those institutions that al-Qaeda is determined to try to
disrupt.
So what we're doing is we're looking at this intelligence
information recently in the context of what is it that is
happening, for example, this year; and we know, with the election
process here, this is one of the reasons why I think everybody
has to be -- remain vigilant.
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